Overlapping publications

Lessons from a case of overlapping publications.

This paper describes problems that arose over the publication of a study of Chlamydia screening which was completed in 2000. The account has been agreed by the authors of the papers, the editors of the two journals involved and by the Council of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The aim of revisiting events that occurred several years ago is to describe some of the difficulties that c...

Liquid Publications: Scientific Publications Meet the Web

The world of scientific publications has been largely oblivious to the advent of the Web and to advances in ICT. Scientific knowledge dissemination is still based on the traditional notion of “paper” publication and on peer review as quality assessment method. The current approach encourages authors to write many (possibly incremental) papers to get more “tokens of credit”, generating often unn...

Reality of Misconduct in Iranian Orthopedic Publications

Fake and misconducted scientific articles are misleading the researchers; it can also impose a huge cost on the academic centers and health system. Finally invalidated published research may give rise to incorrect treatment guidelines that may harm the patients. Based on our search in retraction watch database, 10 retracted orthopedic articles were from Iran. All the reported retracted article ...

Journal Publications

The evasion of carbon dioxide from inland waters was only recently included in assessments of the global carbon budget1,2. Current estimates of carbon dioxide release from global freshwater systems, including lakes and wetlands, range from 0.7 to 3.3 Pg C per year1,3-6. However, these estimates are based on incomplete spatial coverage of carbon dioxide evasion, and an inadequate understanding o...

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